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  • General information

    General information
    Attribute Value
    Wellbore name
    Official name of wellbore based on Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
    15/6-10
    Type
    Wellbore type. Legal values: EXPLORATION, DEVELOPMENT, OTHER (see 'Purpose' for more information)
    EXPLORATION
    Purpose
    Final classification of the wellbore.

    Legal values for exploration wellbores:
    WILDCAT, APPRAISAL, WILDCAT-CCS, APPRAISAL-CCS.

    Legal values for development wellbores:
    OBSERVATION, PRODUCTION, INJECTION, INJECTION-CCS, OBSERVATION-CCS.

    Legal values for other wellbores:
    SOIL DRILLING (drilling in connection with track surveys and other subsurface surveys to investigate the soil conditions prior to placement of facilities),
    SHALLOW GAS (drilling to investigate shallow gas before the first 'real' drilling on the location),
    PILOT (drilling to investigate the geology and fluid connectors for location of the main wellbore),
    SCIENTIFIC (drilling according to Law of Scientific research and exploration),
    STRATIGRAPHIC (driling according to Law of Petroleum activities §2-1).
    WILDCAT
    Status
    Status for the wellbore. Legal values are:

    BLOWOUT: A blowout has occurred in the well.
    CLOSED: A development wellbore that has been closed in a shorter or longer periode. Also applies to development wellbores where drilling is completed, but production/injection has not yet been reported.
    DRILLING: The well is in the drilling phase - can be active drilling, logging, testing or plugging,
    JUNKED: The drilling operation has been terminated due to technical problems.
    P&A: Exploration: The well is plugged and abandoned, and can not be reentered for further use. Development wells: The production/injection from/to the well is stopped and the well is plugged. The wellhead is removed or else made unavailable for further well operations.
    PLUGGED: The wellbore has been plugged, but the upper parts of the wellbore can be re-used. A sidetrack might be drilled at a later stage.
    PRODUCING: It was produced from the wellbore at the time of the operators last monthly report to the Norwegian Offshore Directorate.
    INJECTING: It was injected to the wellbore at the time of the operators last monthly report to the Norwegian Offshore Directorate.
    PREDRILLED: The upper part of the well has been drilled, usually as part of a batch-drilling campaign covering several wellbores.
    RE-CLASS TO DEV: Exploration wellbore that is reclassified to a development wellbore.
    RE-CLASS TO TEST: Exploration wellbore that is reclassified to test production.
    SUSPENDED: The drilling operation in the wellbore has been temporarily stopped. The current plan is to continue drilling later on.
    P&A
    Press release
    Multilateral
    Indicator telling if the parent well is multilateral, meaning it has more than one branch radiating from the main borehole. Example of legal values: YES, NO. See also Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
    NO
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    Main area
    Name of the area on the Norwegian Continental Shelf where the wellbore is located. Legal values: BARENTS SEA, NORWEGIAN SEA, NORTH SEA.
    NORTH SEA
    Discovery
    Name of the discovery the wellbore is related to.
    Well name
    Official name of the parent well for the wellbore based on Norwegian Offshore Directorate guidelines for designation of wells and wellbores.
    15/6-10
    Production licence
    Official designation of the production licence the wellbore was drilled or planned to be drilled from ( well head posistion).
    Drilling operator
    Name of the licensee starting the drilling operation on behalf of the active production license (well head position). This will usually equal the operator of the production license.
    ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Norway AS
    Drill permit
    The drilling permit number together with the version of the drilling permit as stated in the drilling permit granted by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate.
    1224-L
    Drilling facility
    Norwegian Offshore Directorate's name of the facility which the wellbore was drilled from.
    Drilling days
    Number of days from wellbore entry to wellbore completion.
    59
    Entered date
    The date when he wellbore was spudded. For sidetracks: The date when new formation was drilled by kicking off from the mother-wellbore,
    07.02.2009
    Completed date
    Exploration wellbores from moveable facilities:
    For floating facilities - date when anchor handling is started. For jackups - date the jacking-down started. Exploration wellbores from fixed facilities and all development wellbores:
    Date when the wellbore is at total depth, and last casing, liner or screen is set. In case of immediate plugging of the wellbore, completed date equals the date the last plug i set in the wellbore.
    Date when the wellbore is at total depth, and last casing, liner or screen is set. In case of immediate plugging of the wellbore, completed date equals the date the last plug i set in the wellbore.
    06.04.2009
    Release date
    Date when raw data which has been reported to the authorities from the wellbore is not confidential any longer. Normally 2 years after finishing the drilling. May be earlier if the area of the production license is relinquished.
    06.04.2011
    Publication date
    Date quality control of the wellbore information was completed, so it can be published on the internet as a 'Well Data Summary Sheet' wellbore with more information available than other wellbores.
    06.04.2011
    Purpose - planned
    Pre-drill purpose of the wellbore. Legal values for exploration wellbores: WILDCAT, APPRAISAL, WILDCAT-CCS, APPRAISAL-CCS. Example of legal values for development wellbores: OBSERVATION, PRODUCTION, INJECTION.
    WILDCAT
    Content
    For exploration wellbores, status of discovery.

    Legal values:
    DRY, SHOWS (trace amounts of hydrocarbons), GAS, GAS/CONDENSATE, OIL or OIL/GAS.
    SHOWS (GAS SHOWS, OIL SHOWS or OIL/GAS SHOWS) are detected as fluorescent cut (organic extract), petroleum odour, or visual stain on cuttings or cores, or as increased gas reading on the mud-loggers gas detection equipment.
    Legal values for WILDCAT-CCS and APPRAISAL-CCS: WATER

    For development wellbores, type of produced/injected fluid.
    Legal values:
    WATER, CUTTINGS, NOT AVAILABLE, OIL, GAS/CONDENSATE, OIL/GAS, CO2, GAS, WATER/GAS, NOT APPLICABLE.
    GAS/CONDENSATE
    Discovery wellbore
    Indicator which tells if the wellbore made a new discovery. Legal values: YES, NO. Prior to press-release or other information regarding drilling results, the indicator will be “NO” as a default.
    YES
    1st level with HC, age
    Age of lithostratigraphic unit, 1st level, where hydrocarbons were encountered. Examples of legal values: CRETACEOUS, EARLY CRETACEOUS, LATE JURASSIC, EOCENE. See also Norwegian Offshore Directorate bulletins.
    MIDDLE JURASSIC
    1st level with HC, formation
    Name of lithostartigraphic unit, 1st level, where hydrocarbons were encountered. Shown only for released wells. Examples of legal values: BASEMENT, COOK FM, EKOFISK FM, HEIMDAL FM, SANDNES FM, SOGNEFJORD FM, TARBERT FM, BRENT GP. See also Norwegian Offshore Directorate bulletins.
    SLEIPNER FM
    Kelly bushing elevation [m]
    Elevation of the rotary kelly bushing (RKB) above mean sea level.
    25.0
    Water depth [m]
    Depth in metres betweem mean sea level and sea floor.
    111.3
    Total depth (MD) [m RKB]
    Total measured length of wellbore from kelly bushing to total depth (driller's depth).
    3700.0
    Final vertical depth (TVD) [m RKB]
    Vertical elevation from total depth to kelly bushing. Shown only for released wells. Referred to as true vertical depth (TVD).
    3693.0
    Maximum inclination [°]
    Maximum deviation, in degrees, from a vertical well path.Shown only for released wells.
    8
    Bottom hole temperature [°C]
    Estimated temperature at final total depth of the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. See discription.
    119
    Oldest penetrated age
    Age (according to Geologic Time Scale 2004 by F. M. Gradstein, et al. (2004)) of the oldest penetrated formation. May differ from age at TD for example in deviated wellbores. Examples of legal values: CRETACEOUS, EARLY CRETACEOUS, LATE JURASSIC, EARLY PERMIAN, EARLY TRIASSIC, EOCENE.
    LATE TRIASSIC
    Oldest penetrated formation
    Name of the oldest lithostratigraphic unit penetrated by the wellbore. Shown only for released wells. In most wellbores this is formation or group at total depth. May differ from formation or group at TD for example in wellbores drilled with high deviation or through faults. Examples of legal values: AMUNDSEN FM, BALDER FM, BASEMENT, BLODØKS FM, BRYNE FM, BURTON FM, COOK FM, DRAKE FM, DRAUPNE FM, EKOFISK FM, DUNLIN GP.
    SKAGERRAK FM
    Geodetic datum
    Reference system for coordinates. Example of legal values: ED50.
    ED50
    NS degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, north-south degrees.
    58° 40' 55.75'' N
    EW degrees
    Geographic coordinate of the wellhead, east-west degrees.
    1° 50' 15.24'' E
    NS UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, north-south.
    6505393.84
    EW UTM [m]
    Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate of the wellhead, east-west.
    432599.85
    UTM zone
    Universal Transverse Mercator zone. Examples of legal values: 31, 32, 33, 34.
    31
    NPDID wellbore
    Norwegian Offshore Directorate's unique id for the wellbore.
    6030
  • Wellbore history

    General
    Well 15/6-10 was drilled on the Gudrun Terrace in the South Viking Graben of the North Sea. The main objectives of the well were to test the hydrocarbon and reservoir potential in the Hugin and Sleipner sandstones of the Freke prospect. The main target was the Hugin Formation, prognosed at 3495 m TVD RKB, and the secondary target was the Sleipner Formation.
    Operations and results
    Wildcat well 15/6-10 was spudded with the semi-submersible installation Bredford Dolphin on 7 February 2009 and drilled to TD at 3700 m in the Late Triassic Skagerrak Formation. The well experienced some deviation difficulties in the 17 1/2" and 12 1/4" sections. The 17 1/2" section started out well but with fairly high torque and stick-slip levels. When entering the Skade Fm the assembly started to build angle. Despite attempts to reduce the building tendency, the angle kept building 0.5- 0.7 degrees per stand drilled. When drilling at 1838 m, the 17 1/2" assembly twisted off in an extension sub just below the bottom stabilizer, approximately 18 m above the bit. The fish was retrieved at first attempt. The 17 1/2" were finished on a motor run to correct the well path. In 12 1/4" section, steering commenced in order to correct the well path back towards the target centre. Initially steering proved to be relatively easy but turned impossible once entering chalk due to very poor toolface control. The well was drilled with spud mud down to 696 m, with KCl/GEM water based mud from 696 m to 2109 m, and with Performadril water based mud from 2109 m to TD.
    The well penetrated several Tertiary sands (Utsira, Skade, and Heimdal Formations), all water-filled. The primary target Hugin Formation was not encountered although an equivalent age Heather Formation shale prone lithology was encountered at 3497 m. Top Sleipner Formation was encountered at 3510 m and contained gas/condensate down to ca 3567 m (3536 m TVD SS), however the actual hydrocarbon/water contact could not be established from any well data. The Sleipner Formation reservoir sands were silty, with interbedded coals, claystone and thin limestones. Net/gross ratio of the total reservoir was limited to ca 0.3. Oil shows were observed in the Shetland Group (3260-3270 m and 3340-3370 m), in the Vestland Group (3497 - 3584 m) and in the Hegre Group (3620 - 3659 m).
    No cores were taken because massive sands with shows were not identified. No sidewall cores were obtained due to tool failure. MDT hydrocarbon samples were taken at 3545.5 and 3563.8 m and an MDT water sample was taken at 3628 m. Compositional analysis of the hydrocarbon samples showed a condensate with ca 23 % C2+ hydrocarbons.
    The well was permanently abandoned on 6 April 2009 as a gas/condensate discovery.
    Testing
    No drill stem test was performed.
  • Cuttings at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate

    Cuttings at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cuttings available for sampling?
    YES
    Cuttings at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Cutting sample, top depth [m]
    Cutting samples, bottom depth [m]
    700.00
    3697.00
  • Casing and leak–off tests

    Casing and leak–off tests
    Casing type
    Casing diam.
    [inch]
    Casing depth
    [m]
    Hole diam.
    [inch]
    Hole depth
    [m]
    LOT/FIT mud eqv.
    [g/cm3]
    Formation test type
    CONDUCTOR
    30
    200.0
    36
    201.0
    0.00
    LOT
    SURF.COND.
    20
    685.0
    26
    696.0
    0.00
    LOT
    INTERM.
    13 3/8
    2103.0
    17 1/2
    2109.0
    2.15
    LOT
    INTERM.
    9 5/8
    3389.0
    12 1/4
    3395.0
    1.84
    LOT
    OPEN HOLE
    3700.0
    8 1/2
    3700.0
    0.00
    LOT
  • Logs

    Logs
    Log type
    Log top depth [m]
    Log bottom depth [m]
    MDT
    3537
    3657
    MDT
    3544
    3664
    MSCT
    3629
    3669
    MWD - DIR
    136
    201
    MWD - GR EWR PWD DIR
    201
    3697
    PEX150 HRLA DSI GPIT
    3389
    3697
    VSP
    1000
    3690
  • Lithostratigraphy

  • Geochemical information

    Geochemical information
    Document name
    Document format
    Document size [MB]
    txt
    0.00
    txt
    0.10
  • Drilling mud

    Drilling mud
    Depth MD [m]
    Mud weight [g/cm3]
    Visc. [mPa.s]
    Yield point [Pa]
    Mud type
    Date measured
    160
    1.02
    Seawater
    185
    1.06
    Bentonite mud
    205
    1.06
    Bentonite mud
    272
    1.06
    Bentonite mud
    489
    1.25
    Bentonite mud
    700
    1.20
    12.0
    KCL / GEM
    884
    1.20
    12.0
    KCL / GEM
    978
    1.22
    17.0
    KCL / GEM
    1058
    1.21
    16.0
    KCL / GEM
    1756
    1.20
    12.0
    KCL / GEM
    1874
    1.21
    17.0
    KCL / GEM
    1945
    1.45
    31.0
    PERFORMADRIL
    1984
    1.20
    15.0
    KCL / GEM
    2127
    1.34
    20.0
    Performadril
    2687
    1.35
    28.0
    Performadril
    3050
    1.45
    31.0
    PERFORMADRIL
    3092
    1.35
    43.0
    Performadril
    3202
    1.39
    48.0
    Performadril
    3277
    1.39
    41.0
    Performadril
    3395
    1.45
    53.0
    Performadril
    3697
    1.50
    53.0
    PERFORMADRIL
    3697
    1.51
    53.0
    Performadril